just as someone planned

the Ox, the second of the twelve Earthly Branches

a first, start

Alternative spelling of 泥 (uki): a marshland, swamp

loquat

a (morning) tide / seawater / a tidal current / Short for 潮汁 (ushiojiru): a thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

cow, bull, ox, cattle, a domestic bovine / beef

northeast

tiger / tigerlike beast

(honorific) a lord, a landowner / an honorific form of reference for a scholar or teacher, or one's own father / an honorific form of reference for the addressee